Change Making Making Change 2024

Theoretical frameworks addressing organizational change agency not managed by way of traditional executive-driven, top-down methods have proliferated in numerous forms. The variety of these frameworks will be explored for the purpose of yielding common principles and differentiating dimensions. This work is intended to help clarify opportunities and considerations for those who wish to advance change from alternative vantage points and who are typically not included in the organizational development literature audience. From this alternative perspective, organizational change harnesses an ethos of refitting what exists in a workspace as a bricoleur, tinkering with what is available. Thus, such change making emerges by discovery and making change within given constraints by force of ingenuity and resourcefulness. KEYWORDS: Bottom-Up Change, Grass-Roots Organizing, Change Management, Organizational Development